Configuring NPAR on Marvell FastLinQ 41000 Series NICs via RESTful API (ilorest)

[costelter]

Hi!

I'm trying to figure out how to enable the NPAR feature on our Marvell FastLinQ NICs (QL41232HLCU-HC MD2) and how to set all necessary parameters (Personality Ethernet + BAR 2 Size) via ilorest or similar tools which can be fired in a script/via ansible.

The cards are used in DL385 Gen10 Plus machines with ILO v2.72.

I tried ilorest and found only a way to read the current status of being enabled or disabled (but the the rest).

  [..]
    "#NetworkAdapter.v1_2_0.NetworkAdapter": {
      "/redfish/v1/Chassis/1/NetworkAdapters/DE081000": {
        "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Chassis/1/NetworkAdapters/DE081000",
        "Controllers": [
          {
            "ControllerCapabilities": {
              "DataCenterBridging": {
                "Capable": true
              },
              "NPAR": {
                "NparCapable": true,
                "NparEnabled": true
              },
              "NetworkDeviceFunctionCount": 16,
              "NetworkPortCount": 2,
              "VirtualizationOffload": {
                "SRIOV": {
                  "SRIOVVEPACapable": false
                },
                "VirtualFunction": {
                  "DeviceMaxCount": 192,
                  "MinAssignmentGroupSize": 8,
                  "NetworkPortMaxCount": 192
                }
              }
            },
            "FirmwarePackageVersion": "8.55.14",
            "PCIeInterface": {
              "LanesInUse": 8,
              "MaxLanes": 8,
              "MaxPCIeType": "Gen3",
              "PCIeType": "Gen3"
            }
          }
        ],
[..]

via: ilorest rawget /redfish/v1/Chassis/1/NetworkAdapters/DE080000 --url ip -u Administrator -p password

When I tried to change the value via rawpatch it doesn't like my json patch file.

{
  "/redfish/v1/Chassis/1/NetworkAdapters/DE080000": {
  "Controllers": [
    {
      "ControllerCapabilities": {
        "NPAR": {
          "NparEnabled": false
        }
      }
    }
  ]
  }
}

How should this be formatted?

Edit: the error message I get is: An invalid response body was returned: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)No error message returned or unable to parse error response.

Are there better ways to enable NPAR via ilorest or other scripting tools?

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

Christian

[Suman_1978]

Hi,

As far as I know, we dont have much info on custom ilorest commands.
You can refer to these documents for help.

https://www.hpe.com/info/resttool
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/restful-api.html
https://hewlettpackard.github.io/python-redfish-utility/#optional-parameters

RESTful Interface Tool - Document List

Thank You!
I work with HPE but opinions expressed here are mine.
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[costelter]

@Suman_1978 

Well the official documentation doesn't help me with this problem.

There not much on additional PCIe cards like the Marvel NIC.

So, no. I won't see that as a solution. But thank you very much for trying to help me finding a solution.

I would like to see that the documentation for extensions like such a PCIe card would get a documentation on that. Even when it's only a hint that this is currently not supported via RESTful API.